I praise God for the zeal with which your workers are laboring and for the other graces He bestows on them and, through them, on the people. I ask His Infinite Goodness to grant them the strength of body and mind needed for such an important and arduous ministry as...

When a person is determined to give himself to God without reserve, temporal interests must accommodate themselves to this plan (V:490).

Since you are entrusting yourself entirely to God's goodness, you must allow God to continue to work through you (V:490).

Missionaries should strive to remain lowly and unknown and not to make a display and cause others to esteem them (V:485).

Begin with something small and have great love for your own abjection. This is the spirit of Our Lord and that is how he acted and that is also the means of attracting his graces (V:485).

We are not true Christians if we do not embrace and cherish tenderly the ridicule that will be heaped upon us (V:483).

You must act in such a way that you are also prompted to trust even more in God, for His grace is sufficient to help you overcome the assaults of rebellious nature (V:473).

There is no one on earth, no matter how holy, without some inclination to evil. This is the trial of good souls and a subject of merit (V:473).

A plowman has to wait a long time before seeing the fruits of his plowing, and sometimes he does not see the abundant harvest his sowing has produced (V:463).

Since all these graces have been prepared for you, and our good God, who grants them, desires nothing so much as to lavish them on those who truly want to make use of them, what is there to prevent you from being filled with them, destroying by their power all that...